prurient

[Pru·ri*ent]

Something is prurient if it focuses attention on sex not in an artistic way or to teach something, but purely to appeal to your baser instincts. If something is prurient, it's sure to offend somebody.

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Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious curiosity or propensity; lustful.

Adjective S.
characterized by lust; "eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer"; "her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature"; "prurient literature"; "prurient thoughts"; "a salacious rooster of a little man"


a.
Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious curiosity or propensity; lustful.


Prurient

Pru"ri*ent , a. [L. pruries, -entis, p. pr. of prurire to itch. Cf. Freeze.] Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious curiosity or propensity; lustful. -- Pru"ri*ent*ly, adv.
The eye of the vain and prurient is darting from object to object of illicit attraction.

Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious curiosity or propensity; lustful.

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